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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the snowball aimed for?

2. What does Hutch have to do to get free?

3. How many cannot be removed from the Kosmik in time?

4. Which wave that hits is the largest?

5. What can Richard feel on the bottom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Caseway unwilling to postpone Project Hope even for a little while?

2. Who does Janet run into as she is leaving her quarters with her baggage and what does she remember of the incident?

3. What events conspire against Hutch, slowing down her return to the surface one last time?

4. What is the purpose behind Harvey Sill wanting to drop one of the snowballs into the Southern Sea known as the Yakata while the scientists are still working in the Lower Temple?

5. What questions does Hutch have about the snowball dropped on them by Melanie?

6. What issue does the Boston Globe bemoan?

7. Why had the excavation of the Lower Temple been so important?

8. What formality does Henry's team observe when they finally break through to the Temple of the Winds, and what do they find inside?

9. What are Richard and the remainder of the crew searching for, and what do they find instead of even greater value?

10. What was particularly odd about the structures created in Oz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What action is taken that is supposed to convince the archaeologists that they must leave the planet? Who initiates this action, and what consequence occurs as a result? Who decides to retaliate, and what retaliation is planned? How does this retaliation compare with the initial offense? Did the culprit on either side ever take responsibility for their actions and if so, when and how? Was anyone injured in either case?

Essay Topic 2

What information led to the discovery of the likely home planet of the Monument Makers? How was the information sorted out, and how were alternate planetary systems eliminated from possibility? What system was used to search? Who did the searching? What was found that pointed the way to the most likely home planet for this race?

Essay Topic 3

What is the eventual outcome of the crew of the Wincklemann? How many members remain, and what positions do they hold afterward? What is attempted by Meg Campbell aboard the Pasquarella? What is the outcome? What conclusions are reached about the Monument Makers? What suggestion made by Hutch is found to be correct and why? What discovery supports her conclusions?

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